Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2013. sewn cl. The scholar in whose honor these articles are published has spent his career researching Russia’s Silver Age and the early avant-garde. Reflecting his interests, the authors write on the art and literature of the early twentieth century, artistic and literary circles of the 1910s... More

St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2017. Sewn cl. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg publishes, often for the first time, paintings, drawings, posters, and archival photos showing the ways in which the 1917 revolution was celebrated visually from its first anniversary in... More

St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2014. sewn pb. This edition in the series on the Russian avant-garde book publishes two facsimiles "A Treatise on Total Indecency" (Traktat o sploshnom neprilichii, Tiflis, 1920) and "17 Petty Guns" (17 erundovykh orudii, Tiflis, 1919) detailed commentaries and articles placing them against the background of the early Soviet... More

St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2014. sewn pb. Published in 1923 Maiakovskii's poem "About That" (Pro eto) became a landmark for its visual and verbal singularities. Photomontage by Alexander Rodchenko was not only innovative in technique but also in content: the images of the author and his lover were among the... More

Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2006. pb. This catalogue of an exhibition uses the rich archives of the Mayakovsky Museum to focus on one of his fellow futurists the poet Vasilii Kamenskii. The work of poets and artists was so closely intertwined at that time (ca. 1912) that many literary works were... More

Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo. The first exhibition in the Soviet devoted to Klutsis the avant-grade photographer and designer who was repressed by the Soviet authorities took place in 1961 at the Mayakovskii Library-Museum. This concise booklet catalogues works by Klutsis in various genres. n.p., 21 cm, approx. 20 color and b/w illus. More

St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii universitet, 2016. sewn pb. The key documents of the Ukrainian branch of Slavic futurism (1914–30) are given in Russian translation for the first time. The book also includes the full bibliography of Semenko’s lifetime editions, his 40 books and almanacs, a chronology of his life and works... More

Moscow: Kontakt-Kul'tura, 2017. sewn cl. This book publishes a private collection of posters on the theme of the 1917 revolution. About two thirds date to the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. As Russia, especially in the Soviet period, is decidedly a "poster" country, many of the posters are strong works of... More

1998. sewn pb. The Hermitage exhibition catalogue juxtaposes fifty-two of Cézanne’s paintings, thirty-two of which are from Russian collections, with those of Russian artists for whom he became a model of inventive talent. The curators note the importance for the development of the fact that Russian collectors such as S.... More

St. Petersburg: Svoe izdatel'stvo, 2014. saddle-stitched. . Facsimile reprint of the 1912 edition of a seminal work of Russian futurism with text by Kruchenykh and Khlebnikov and illustrations by Natalia Goncharova. 28 p., 17 illus., Rus. More

St. Petersburg: Svoe izdatel'stvo, 2013. saddle-stitched. Facsimile reprint of the 1923 edition published by the Moscow Association of Futurists, Theory Series No. 3, and written by the chief futurist poet. 46 p., 19 cm, Rus. More

St. Petersburg: Svoe izdatel'stvo, 2013. saddle-stitched. Facsimile reprint of the 1923 edition published by the Moscow Association of Futurists, Theory Series No. 1, and written by a major futurist poet. n.p., 11 cm, Rus. More

St. Petersburg: Svoe izdatel'stvo, 2014 (1st ed. 1913). saddle-stitched. Facsimile reprint of the 1913 edition of Kruchenykh's futurist poem illustrated by Mikhail Larionov. The work typifies the flamboyant creativity of the early Russian avant-garde in its futurist phase. 34 p., 16 line drawings, saddle-stitched, Rus. More

Moscow: Fortuna El, 2015. sewn cl. This book reprints three editions of Mayakovsky poems designed by Alexander Rodchenko, thus making accessible basic works by two greats of the Soviet Russian avant-garde. Following the poems and illustrations is an article on Rodchenko as the artist whose style defined constructivism; also included... More

Moscow: Kontakt-Kul'tura, 2010. sewn pb. The combination of urgent political messages during the civil war that followed the 1917 revolution and fertile new forms of art let to the Russian Telegraph Agency’s publication of an original form of news and propaganda: This book brings back to life a unique phenomenon... More

St. Petersburg: Krasnyi matros, 2016. Pb. Kamenskii, the "poet-aviator," one of the leaders of the Russian futurist movement in literature and art, composed these satirical lines to dispel the cliches and conformity that he thought were rampant in the work of his fellow poets. Illustrated with photos of the author... More

St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2015. sewn pb. The artists and writers in Maiakovskii's circle worked closely together, and Maiakovskii himself was both poet and artist; the illustrations published here are an integral part of this edition. Some were published for "The Backbone Flute"; others illustrate the text, and many show... More

Moscow: Iskusstvo XXI vek, 2017 (2nd ed. enlarged and corrected). Sewn cl. The author's extensive research into the work of Russian artists of the first wave of emigration - that occasioned by the Bolshevik revolution and civil war - covers artist who began their careers in Russia but ended up... More

Moscow: Masterskaia / Shrift, 2014. Sewn pb. This study of two predominant type styles of the 1920s considers both of them revolutionary, points out that both were superseded in the 1930s after the romance of the revolutionary period was over by a homogenized style. The style based on the work... More

St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2017. Sewn pb. Together with Vladimir Mayakovsky and David Burliuk Kamenskii devised a form of avant-garde art that became known as Futurism. Boundaries between the arts vanished visual and verbal artists working together to produce works that were both visually and verbally inventive. Kamenskii wrote poetry... More

St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii universitet, 2017. Sewn pb. Russian Avant-Garde and European Rococo, Renaissance masterpieces and Imperial kitsch, Velimir Khlebnikov and Albrecht Dürer, Proclamation of the Chairmen of the Globe and medieval Persian miniature — what do they have in common? And what have hares to do with them? This experimental... More

St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2015. sewn pb. In this edition of European University Press's series on the Russian literary and artistic avant-garde the author's interpret a narrative poem by the great lyrical poet, which he wrote attempting to meet the demands of the time (1923). Mayakovsky published it in the... More

St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2008. sewn cl. In a city of grand eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ensembles harmonizing with art nouveau of the early twentieth century, the avant-garde architecture of the early Soviet period has gotten short shrift from architectural historians. In the first book devoted to the style, the authors demonstrate... More